Tag: explore

Mr. Old School strikes again with his photo of a tree swallow at John Heinz NWR. Such beautiful birds. Jewel-toned, shining blue feathers. This was shot at 300mm requiring a bit of stealth and patience to get close enough for the capture. Shot with the Sony a500 and the Minolta 75-300mm at 300mm.

Mr. Old School’s gathering of turtles hits Flickr’s Explore making it to 255 in the top 500. Of course I can understand the appeal. TURTLES! Plus, it’s a great shot. From John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Shot with a Sony a500 and the Minolta 75-300mm.

Pretty excited. The first photo Explored on Flickr! Shot down at John Heinz NWR. Great White Heron. The exceptionally amazing part of making Explore is that the photo was taken with the Minolta 500mm Rokkor-X which is a manual lens. Very tricky to use especially with wildlife. It’s encouraging that getting a good shot with […]

Intense emotion is stressful, and we look to artists to feel for us, to suffer and rejoice, to describe the heights of their passionate response to life so that we can enjoy them from a safe distance and get to know better what the full range of human experience really is. We may not choose to live out the extremes of consciousness we find...but it's wonderful to peer into them. We look to artists to stop time for us, to break the cycle of birth and death and temporarily put an end to life's processes. It is too much of a whelm for any one person to face up to without going into sensory overload. Artists, on the other hand, court that intensity. We ask artists to fill our lives with a cavalcade of fresh sights and insights, the way life was for us when we were children and everthing was new. ~~ Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses